EOS PARTNERS takes majority stake in DROOMS

Integrated Media Company (IMC), through its subsidiary VantageCo Limited, has completed the acquisition of Playstack Limited, a leading independent UK-based video game publisher specializing in digital title releases across PC, console, and mobile platforms

Francisco Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EfficientIP, a French specialist in network infrastructure management and security solutions, from its founders and minority investors, in partnership with the company's management team

Five Arrows has sold Padoa to US-based Thoma Bravo in a landmark leveraged buyout (LBO) aimed at supporting the company's next phase of growth. This transaction marks a significant milestone in Padoa's evolution, as the company comes under the control of a specialized investor in B2B software and technology, renowned for its expertise in backing accelerating software publishers

The acquisition of m-work shifts Asys’s product perimeter from legacy time-and-attendance tracking into upstream collaborative workforce scheduling and hybrid physical asset optimization. Executed with follow-on programmatic M&A backing from CAPZA through its Growth Tech investment vehicle, this transaction accelerates Asys’s product roadmap by injecting native AI capabilities into its core scheduling engine to target pan-European corporate accounts

Montagu has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in BMC Helix through a carve-out transaction from BMC Software, a company owned by KKR. The deal involves spinning off Helix from the BMC group to create a standalone entity focused on ServiceOps and artificial intelligence-powered IT operations solutions

Lattice Semiconductor has agreed to acquire AMI in a strategic transaction designed to create a comprehensive secure management and control platform for the technology industry. The acquisition is a key step in advancing Lattice's strategy to expand its market position in high-growth server, AI, and cloud applications

The transaction represents a transition of ownership from a founder-led corporate structure to a sponsor-backed primary LBO. The core industrial rationale of the ownership transfer is to match the target's capital structure with its cross-border scaling ambitions, specifically accelerating market share gains in the high-volume North American life sciences software sector

Publicis Groupe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the share capital of US-based LiveRamp through an all-cash public tender offer. This landmark cross-border transaction represents Publicis' largest tech-driven acquisition since Epsilon, explicitly engineered to accelerate the group's digital capabilities in secure data co-creation, advanced data clean rooms, and agentic AI enterprise transformation

LegalPlace has completed the full acquisition of its historical and primary competitor, Legalstart, marking a major consolidation event within the French LegalTech landscape. The transaction was financed as part of a significant capital increase by LegalPlace, backed by a consortium of investors including Move Capital Fund I, XAnge, and Eurazeo

Doctolib executed a strategic acquisition of Medicus, a UK-based developer of clinical software for the National Health Service (NHS), marking its official entry into the United Kingdom. This transaction represents a key milestone in Doctolib's European expansion, adding the UK as its fifth operational market alongside France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands